* While it is an outlier, the LA Times/USC national poll has reported the largest lead for Trump since the election began among reputable pollsters, putting him at 47 v 40 for Hillary. He is now +1.3 and rising in the poll average.
If I were Hillary I would make the background of the campaign focus on her and Kaine’s implicit whiteness, tamp down on BLM however possible, and run the same campaign against Trump as Obama did against Romney: a heartless rich guy.
Trump provides such a target rich environment with his long and sleazy business career and personal life that the Dems just can’t pick a line of attack and stick to it. And they always take his bait to make the conversation about “racism.” White Americans have had more than enough discussion about how they all suck and are awful racists. But the dems just can’t help themselves, they have to keep calling Trump a racist, I think it is an uncontrollable reflex for them.
* Well I awoke this morning expecting lots of media coverage of Trump’s alleged TREASON for making a wisecrack about Clinton’s inability to manage classified information but there is nothing at all about it. The libs were certainly unhinged about it last night. Shortest meme cycle I have seen to date.
* I watched most, but not all, of the speech. I found it interesting that he still claims the assassination of Osama Bin Laden as a big achievement (I agreed with SOD Bob Gates’ recommendation that we should have taken him out with missiles rather than risk Navy Seals), probably thinking it helped win the 2012 election so why not try it again, completely overlooking the fact that ISIS is the enemy du jour. I think it might have been an effective speech if we didn’t have the past 7-1/2 years of Obama reality to measure it by. A measure of how far we’ve come is that I heard Tim Kaine go through the list of past Democratic greats (from Jack to Martin to Lyndon to Bill) and the contributions they made and cited Obama for bringing us “hope” (“and Barack gave us hope”).Whatever happened to the second part: “change”?
BTW I recall Colin Powell endorsing Obama in 2012 and crediting him for ending the war in Iraq and arranging for the impending withdrawal from Afghanistan. Another great sales job by Gen. Powell. And another preemptive reward, like the Nobel Peace Prize, to a totally undeserving recipient.
* She was a National Merit Finalist: top 1/2 of 1 percent. Of course she’s never been right about anything in her life.
* First, Trump runs under the ‘Make America Great Again’ slogan. Then Democrat protesters at Trump events hold signs that read ‘America Was Never Great’. Now their leader has changed that to ‘America Is Already Great’. Which is it? Were we never great or are we great now?
* Obama has two things to his name: national health care, which has mixed reviews and basically amounts to a tax increase, and racial polarization, which he has managed to accentuate.
I think in the end Obama will be most associated with the continued economic sluggishness, and polarization and fragmentation of Americans along racial, ethnic, and sexual identification lines. “The Futility of Diversity” might be the title of a review of his presidency.
* I think Obama will be remembered in the history books for being the “black President”. Now that we have gotten that out of our system, I suspect it will be some time before we try that again. After Dinkins, NY did not elect any more black mayors and even in Phila which has as many blacks as whites the new mayor is white. After the 1st one you actually have to be qualified and not just black.
It’s just as well that he will be remembered for that because he won’t be remembered for anything else. The economy never fully recovered, there was no racial healing (in fact the opposite). Obamacare will probably self-destruct in a few years one way or another because the economics are not sustainable. So that his net legacy will be zilch.
* Watch out, Donald, they’re coming for you:
Trump's "jokes" inviting an adversary to wage cyberwar against the U.S. appear to violate the Logan Act and might even constitute treason.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 28, 2016
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/laurence-tribe-trump-russia-226371
In Obama’s America, the wrong sort of joke is Treason.
And you know what the wrong sort is — and if you don’t, you’ll find out soon.
